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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Euclidiini » Celiptera » Celiptera valina - Hodges#8748 (Celiptera valina)

Species Celiptera valina - Hodges#8748

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Celiptera valina? - Celiptera valina - male

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Erebidae

Subfamily Erebinae

Tribe Euclidiini

Genus Celiptera

Species valina (Celiptera valina - Hodges#8748)

Hodges Number

8748

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Celiptera valina (Schaus, 1901)

Mocis valina Schaus, 1901 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930941 (2)

Numbers

There are two Celiptera species in America north of Mexico. (2), (2)

Size

Wingspan average 46 mm.

Identification

The Hampson (1913) revised description of Celiptera valina is available online in the print references below.

Range

Arizona; western and northern Texas. (3), (4)

Mexico. (1)

Described from a specimen collected in Mexico: [Jalisco], Guadalajara. (1)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Adults appear to be most common from May to September. (4)

Food

Larval host unknown.

See Also

Celiptera frustulum

Compare to others on the archived photos of living moths and pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Hampson, G.F. 1913. Noctuidae. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. p. 135.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (5)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD (6)

Lepbarcoding.org

Works Cited

1.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

2.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

3.	Moths of Dallas County, Texas

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 14 July, 2012 - 8:18pm
Last updated 1 September, 2014 - 3:55pm

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